Posts tagged development
Why Microsoft’s Skype Acquisition Is Really Not as Bad as it Seems
Minutes before I started a Skype-call this morning, I heard the news. Microsoft had bought Skype for $8.5 billion dollars. To put it mildly, many people aren’t happy about it My immediate reaction was indifference. I have to add to this, that I use Skype daily. It plays a central role in the way I make…
Nailing the Coffin on “Internet Addiction”
We all have heard it before that someone is “addicted to the Internet” and secretly fear that we might be in danger of turning into online junkies, ourselves. It’s what our parents had warned us from. Only now it’s not the television. It’s bigger, better, brighter, more addictive: The Internet! But according to a study…
Logging in to Log Off: Non-Mediated Nostalgia and the Point of No Return
As regular readers know, much of my writing circles around the awesomeness of being connected, like being able to work from anywhere and get access to all kinds of cool people and information – and the looming recognition- that being connected all the time warps our daily life into something which is characterized by being…
Din & Denial in the Digital Garden of Eden
Remember the days when a piercing was shocking? Or a tattoo? Nowadays, you have to implant ‘devil horns‘ under your skin, get eyeball jewelry or other forms of bodymodding to turn some heads. The practices applied range from splitting your tongue, permanently cutting your ears into elves-shape, to drilling holes into your skull! Who wouldn’t…
Top Five Historical April Fools’ Jokes
It’s that time of the year again! While Google, Hulu, Youtube and others are playing virtual pranks on their users, let’s pause for a moment and look back into the marvelous history of April Fools’ pranks. Here is my unordered list of nominees for the top five April Fools’ hoaxes. Ever. (feel free to add…
5 Things Everybody Ought to Know About Online Learning
When you think of your childhood school-time, chances are that your memories are very similar to those of many other people from all kinds of generations, countries or cultures and look something like this: “Sitting in rows, facing a teacher and blackboard, we were pretending to pay attention, hunched over worksheets, surprise exams or (mostly…